Cutting device.



E. N. HUMPHRBY.

CUTTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED Mmm/,1913.

1,088,900, Patented Mar.3,191`44 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

ERNEST N. HUMPHREY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 THE TRAUT EINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 0F NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORA- TION 0F CONNECTICUT.

CUTTING DEVICE.

Application tiled Hatch 7, 1913'. `Serial No. 752,628.

To all 'whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, ERNEST N. HUM- PHREY, a citizen of the United States residing at New Britain, county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1 n Cutting Devices, of which the following 1s a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a cutting device and particularly to that type known as cigar cutters and it is the object of the present invention to provide a thin flat dev lce of this character of simple and inexpensive construction and etlicient operation. The structure of my invention lends itself readily to manufacture from stamped sheet metal and the cutting element is such that broken safety razor blades may be utilized for this purpose, so that taken altogether, the device is one which may be very cheaply constructed without detracting from its etiiciency. vTo this end I have provided the structure recited in the following detailed specification taken in connection with the accompanyingr drawings illustratlng a preferable embodiment of the invention.

In these drawings: Figure l is a view in front elevation of my cutting device with the parts in folded position and with the blade holder shown in raised position in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the free end of the closed device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view partly in elevation. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the device shown in full lines in Fig. l.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 indicates the guard section of the device formed from sheet metal folded upon itself to provide an elongated channeled body between the sides and within the channel of which the cutting edge of the blade may extend. This body is rovided with an offset end '2, the base of thls offset end being preferably cut out as at 3 to provide bifurcated arms. The opposite end of the Ibody lis of slightly greater width, as l, the purpose of which will be hereinafter described.

Coperating with the guard section is a blade holder section 5, likewise formed of sheet metal folded upon itself to form a complemental elongated channeled body within the channel of which the upper end of a cutting blade 7 of the wafer t pe is seated. The under edge of this blade older section conforms substantially in shape to the .outline of the upper edge of the guard section. Blade holder section 54 is provided with a laterally offset end 6 which ov'erla s and extends in between the sides of t e blfurcated end 2 of the guard body l and 1s pivoted thereto by means of a tubular rivet 8. Thls end 6 at the point of its junction with the main body 5 of the guard section is preferably offset somewhat to brlng 1t in a plane centrally of the blade holding section and in line with the channel between the faces of the guard section, so that the faces of the guard and `blade holding sections will lie in the same plane.

The. guard section adjacent its free or non-pivoted end is provided with alined apertures 4 therein through which the end of a cigar or other article may be inserted in order that it may be cut by the blade 7. The extended portion l at the free end of the guard member permits the blade 7 to be retracted from the guard section, suliciently far to uncover the apertures 4 therethrough. In order, however, to retain the edge of the blade within this guard section so that it w1ll always be guided therein and will not be inJured or distorted, I prefer to limit the relative movement between the blade holder and guard section and accomplish this b providing the offset end 6 of the blade hold) ing section with an arcuate slot 10 therein, ta en with the tubular rivet 8 as a center, and in providing the guard section with a in 9 extending through said slot and serving to limit the relative moyement between the two sections of the devlce. of the blade is, of course, proportioned to the width of the guard section and to the length of the slot 10, so that its cutting edge will be held from contact withthe bottom of the channel guard member, and so that the adjacent edges of the blade holding and guard sections will abut and be in parallel relation when the parts are folded.

The ,device herein described affords an inexpensive and efiicicnt'cutting device for the purposes recited and for analogous uses and presents a neat appearance and a compact structure. Being flat, it may be very convenientl carried 1n the pocket.

While I ave herein described a specific embodiment of this invention, it will, of course, be understood that variousstruc- Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

The width 1 tural changes are possible within the spirit pivoted of the invention and the scope of the appended claims. j f

What l claim therefore and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

. l. ln a device of the character described, in combination, two ivotally interconnected and transverselya ined parts, one of said parts comprising a memberof hannel section having alined apertures therethrough adjacent Aits non end, 'a complementalfiat sheet metal lade holding member of channel section having a blade seated within the channel thereof with its cutting edge projecting from its channel into the channel of said uard member, the end of oneof said memers being laterally offset and extending;

into the channel of the other and being ivotally mounted therein and said mem rs being provided with means positioning the cuttmg edge of saidblade above the base of the channel of said guard member when said members arein fully closed position.

2. ln a device or' the character described, in combination, two pivotally connected and transversely alined parts, one of said parts comprising 4a dat sheet metal guard member of channel section having alined apertures portion,

iatl sheet metal guard Y inesperti-*- therethrough adjacent one end and havin v its opposite end provided with a "bifurcate a comp emental flat sheet metal blade-hiding member of channel section having a lateral oset adjacent one endextending within` and pivotally secured to the.

bifurcated portion oflsaid guard member and having a blade v'member seated within its channel ortion 'with its cutting edge exjtending wit in thek channel of said guard member, the adjacent l-edges of said guard and blade-holding members being of complemental contour whereby when said bladeholding member is positioned to bring the cutting edge of ,its blade below the lower j edge of said alined apertures, said adjacent edges will lie in parallel relation and-will i contact to position the cutting edge of said blade above the base of' said channeled guard member, and means arranged to limit the withdrawal of the cutting edge ofthe blade member lto a point adjacentthe upperedges-of the alined apertures -in the guard member. ERNEST N. HUMPHREY.

Witnesses:

W. J. WARA'N, Jr.,

M. A. GORMAN. 

